Monday, March 13, 2006

Utter disaster!

I've just opened my psion to see what I'm supposed to be doing today...and it's blank! So is tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday.....every single diary entry has been expunged from the face of the earth.People have muttered darkly about what would happen if I allowed the batteries to run down, but it's not that, as word files and databases survive intact...Somehow, inexplicably, all the diary entries have been deleted.PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE if you are expecting me to meet you, phone you or do anything at all with you in the days and weeks ahead....email me (myname at t*i*s*c*a*l*i*.c*o*.u*k) Or I won't be there.Need to go and say Morning Prayer now (thank God some things are constants...)but after that will be reading the small print in the manual as never before. Are there any psion users out there who've had this experience and triumphed? I need help. Fast!

I'm irrevocably wedded to the electronic organizer (Palm in my case) - but I always make sure that it's synchronized to my PC! That gives the necessary backup in case of the worrisome crash, blank or loss of the Palm. [Of course, this gives the one greatest advantage of the electronic over the paper form - backups are easy and quick to make. Try photocopying your filofax every day... :-) ]

Hearty commiserations. Unfortunately I don't feature in your appointments (keep meaning to do something about that). I used to have an electronic diary, but have reverted to paper. Much more reliable - but also quite capable of simply getting lost.